Exercise your brain Enjoy learning

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Exercise your brain ! Enjoy learning!
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Abstract

• Our research is talking about how exercise effect
  students activeness in the class. Some tests
  were applied on volunteers from grade nine with
  an age of 13-15. Most were our friends in school
  and they cooperated well with us
• When you read our research you will see that we
  made the volunteers exercise before each science
  lesson and observed them during the lesson ,it
  was an interesting experience for us and for our
  volunteers ..
• We tried our best to find a way to make the
  students more active in the class and we hope
  that people will benefit from our research.

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Introduction

• Exercise has been touted to do everything from
  treat depression to improve memory, with the
  power to cure a host of problems while preventing
  even more. In particular, exercise leads to the
  release of certain neurotransmitters in the brain
  that alleviate pain, both physical and mental.
  Additionally, it is one of the few ways
  scientists have found to generate new neurons.
  Much of the research done in this area has
  focused on running, but all types of aerobic
  exercise provide benefits. Although the exact
  nature of these benefits is still being
  determined, enough research has been done to
  provide even skeptics with a motivation to take
  up exercise. Exercise exerts its effects on the
  brain through several mechanisms, including
  neurogenesis, mood enhancement, and endorphin
  release.

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Review of literature

• Study Exercise Lowers Dementia Risk
• Talk of the nation, January 27, 2006
• According to a new study published in the
  Annals of Internal medicine, people 65 and older
  who did moderate exercise had a significantly
  reduced risk of developing dementia. According to
  researchers, just 15 minutes of exercise three
  times a week lowered the risk of developing
  dementia by 30 to 40 percent.

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Aims and purposes

• Our aims and purposes are to make the students
  more active so that they can receive information
  faster and easier. Also to try and satisfy both
  students and teachers, but the main purpose was
  to show the importance of sport in our daily
  life.

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Methods and Materials
Materials We used the gym as a place for
applying the exercise on the students. The labs
were used to observe the activeness of students.

•  Methods
• We chose the problem about the research.
• We searched for tests to test the students.
• We asked the students if they could volunteer.
• We found 13 students as volunteers
• We applied the exercises on the students before
  each class for two weeks.
• We observed the girls after exercising during the
  science class.
• After the two weeks, we gave out surveys to the
  students.
• We interviewed the teachers and took notes about
  what they saw during the two weeks.
• We analyzed the results and collected data.
• Finally we collected all our data and results in
  one research.

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Results

• If you compare this graph with the survey
  paper you will see that most of the
• girls agree that exercise changed something
  about their activity during a lesson
• and that they were pleased and encouraged to
  continue

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The Survey paper

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• 1-After exercising, I felt refreshed
• Strongly agree Agree neither agree or
  disagree disagree strongly disagree
• 2- I felt tired in the class after exercising
• Strongly agree Agree neither agree or
  disagree disagree strongly disagree
• 3-I can't concentrate in class after exercising
• Strongly agree Agree neither agree or
  disagree disagree strongly disagree
• 4- I think that exercise improves my learning
• Strongly agree Agree neither agree or
  disagree disagree strongly disagree
• 5- Exercise eases out the stress I feel before
  attending the class
• Strongly agree Agree neither agree or
  disagree disagree strongly disagree
• 6- I feel active and motive to participate in the
  lesson after I exercised
• Strongly agree Agree neither agree or
  disagree disagree strongly disagree
• 7- I understood the lesson
• Strongly agree Agree neither agree or
  disagree disagree strongly disagree
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• 8- I

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• 8-I think exercise is useless
• Strongly agree Agree neither agree or
  disagree disagree strongly disagree
• 9- I do exercise everyday
• Strongly agree Agree neither agree or
  disagree disagree strongly disagree
• 10 -Exercising is important to make us live a
  healthy life
• Strongly agree Agree neither agree or
  disagree disagree strongly disagree
• 11- I don't have time to exercise
• Strongly agree Agree neither agree or
  disagree disagree strongly disagree
• 12- Praying on time is the best exercise
• Strongly agree Agree neither agree or
  disagree disagree strongly disagree
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Interviews regarding our research
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An interview with Miss Shereen

• We interviewed our science teacher "Ms.
  Shereen" about her observation to the students
  who exercised.
• and she said
• "I think that exercise is very useful for the
  body and thinking, I have noticed a change
  in the students activity in class after a while."
• and she added
• "Some students havent changed at all but
  some of them were enormously active than before,
  such as M.A who was sleepy all the time. Others
  had an effect but not like M.
• I really think that this project will work
  if the girls completed the research and exercised
  the girls for a longer period.

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An interview with Miss Entisar

• We interviewed Miss Entisar (our science
  teacher) about her observation to the student who
  exercised
• her opinion was
• She thinks that girls dont participate and
  pay attention in the class not because of the
  subject it maybe because they dont eat or sleep
  well. After exercising her opinion was
• She saw positive changes, participating
  more, especially S and A their attention and
  motivation during the class increased. but there
  are girls that didnt change like R.
• She added that doing exercise before the
  lesson especially in heavy lessons (science) .It
  maybe helpful to increase the motivation and
  activity of the students in the class especially
  lower level students .

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An interview with Miss Entisar

• She also thinks that teenagers feel excited
  and more active
• after exercising for several minutes before
  class ,
• it helps them to warm up and pay attention
• But the only negative point is the time.
• Finally she said that she would like to use
  this technique in the school because it is useful
  and helpful especially during the
• exams .

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An interview with a special case in our research

• We interviewed our classmate A. H
• about her experience with exercise and how did
• she feel about it
• She said" before the exercise I was always
• bored and even sometimes sleepy in the class
• but after exercising my situation was improving
• every time I exercise
• She added
  A. during exercise
• I decline that the exercise makes me a bit
  tired,
• on the other hand it makes me feel active and
  refreshed minded
  
• She ended her speech saying
• I think that exercise is fun and if it helped
  me, it can help others, so I think that its a
  good idea if the school would provide these
  exercises before hard lessons

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Conclusion

• After working hard for five months, we
  concluded that exercise effect students in a very
  interesting way. Some students stayed the same
  while others have become greatly active in class.
  According to what we have observed in the two
  weeks that we demonstrated our research and to
  our analyzing of the results , we found out that
  exercising improves the students concentration
  in class.

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Recommendation

• Exercise is very important for our health in many
  ways, not just in learning. We recommend that if
  you feel lazy in classes, exercise even if it was
  for five minutes. Although you wont notice the
  difference at first but after a while youll
  discover the difference yourself.

Exercise! And say goodbye to the lazy days!
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References

• http//serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro05/web2
  /mmcgovern.html
• www.deviantart.com
• Dr. Abdul-munim Sulaiman Barham , Mohammed Khamis
  Abu-Nimra , second addition(1995) Encyclopedia
  of exercising , Dar Al-Nashir for publishing

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